Definition of Childish

Childish

Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

Puerile; trifling; weak.

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Befitting, Child, Of, Or, Pertaining, Puerile, Resembling, To, Trifling, Weak

Childish Quotations

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
John Steinbeck

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
Clarence Darrow

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.
Katharine Hepburn

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.
Albert Ellis

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.
Samuel Butler

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
W. Somerset Maugham

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Friedrich Schiller

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.
Meg White

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
Jean Ingelow

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
Gene Wilder

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
Isaiah Berlin

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
Mason Cooley

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
Rita Dove

You can be childlike without being childish.
Christopher Meloni

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?"
Christopher Meloni

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Judith Viorst

Dying people often become childish.
Georg Buchner

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.
Amber Benson

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
James Anthony Froude

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
Adrian Edmondson

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
Kate Greenaway

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.
Martin Bashir

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Matthew Hale

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Frederick Buechner

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Childish Translations

childish in Dutch is kinderlijk
childish in German is kindisch, kindliche
childish in Hungarian is gyermekies, gyerekes
childish in Italian is fanciullesco
childish in Latin is puerilis
childish in Swedish is barnslig

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